This is a ring barrow, a type of funerary monument typically consisting of a low central mound or flat area enclosed by a surrounding ditch and outer bank, and the one at Kilbragh is a particularly unassuming example. The central area measures just three metres in diameter, ringed by an internal fosse, which is simply a shallow ditch, no more than fifteen centimetres deep, and an outer earthen bank that rises only thirty-five centimetres above the surrounding ground on its exterior face. What it lacks in height it compensates for in setting, positioned to overlook a pond to the north-west.

The site was identified during a field inspection in January 2007, which is itself a reminder of how many such monuments remained unrecorded until relatively recently. Ring barrows are associated broadly with the Bronze Age and Iron Age in Ireland, used as burial monuments or ritual enclosures, though the passage of millennia and the disturbances of agriculture often leave their original purpose difficult to confirm without excavation. What makes this one quietly interesting beyond its small dimensions is a linear feature extending approximately twenty-three metres from the north-east of the monument, curving slightly as it goes, and pointing toward a separate enclosure to the north-east. Whether this connecting feature is contemporary with the barrow or represents a later development is unknown, but it suggests the site did not exist in isolation, and that the landscape around it was organised in ways we can only partially read now.